In the interest of spending a few minutes less in the digital, a few more with the analog; also in the interest of trusting to the eventual coherence of the random and fragmentary over the…
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1. A longstanding Boxing Day tradition, beginning a new book. I unwrapped this one yesterday (thank you Pater) and am happily settling in with it and a steadily replenished teacup. 2. Did you know that…
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We’ve had a golden year of having all four of our kids’s families living in one city. Not so golden that they’re all in our city, but we do have a tiny apartment in theirs, and…
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Pre-Christmas-shopping fortification, exquisite French breakfast pastries and coffee at Thierrry, a precious quiet moment with Pater… If my blog stats are any indication, the busy-ness of the season is already taking readers from the screen…
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Lisa’s eloquent post on her thoughts, as a mother, on her own mother’s decline, prompted me to begin articulating some of my thoughts about the passing of the generational torch, as I’m observing it in…
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